quartary
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See also: quaternary
English
[edit]← 3 | 4 | 5 → [a], [b] |
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Cardinal: four Ordinal: fourth Latinate ordinal: quartary, quaternary Reverse order ordinal: fourth to last, fourth from last, last but three Latinate reverse order ordinal: preantepenultimate Adverbial: four times Multiplier: fourfold Latinate multiplier: quadruple Distributive: quadruply Group collective: foursome Multipart collective: quadruplet Greek or Latinate collective: tetrad Greek collective prefix: tetra-, tessera- Latinate collective prefix: quadri- Fractional: quarter, fourth Latinate fractional prefix: quadrant- Elemental: quadruplet Greek prefix: tetarto- Number of musicians: quartet Number of years: quadrennium, olympiad |
Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin quārtārius (“quarter-sextarius, quarter-pint”), from quārtus (“fourth”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming adj.”). Equivalent to quart + -ary. Doublet of quartarius.
Noun
[edit]quartary (plural quartaries)
- (historical, rare, obsolete) Synonym of quartarius, quarter-sextarius, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 0.14 L
- (historical, rare, obsolete) A Roman unit of mass, one-fourth of a Roman pound.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Latin quārtus (“fourth”) + -ary (“forming adj.”) within English in place of the correct form quaternary.
Adjective
[edit]quartary (not comparable)
- (proscribed, obsolete) Synonym of quaternary: Of the fourth rank or order, fourth in a series.
References
[edit]- “† quartary, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- “† quartary, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2021.
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